Salon94 Curator, Fabienne Stephan, shares her picks to this year's New York fairwith a focus on woman artists, plus a few shows to check out not found on Randall's Island.

Salon94 Curator, Fabienne Stephan, shares her picks to this year's New York fair—with a focus on woman artists, plus a few shows to check out not found on Randall's Island.

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Blade, 2012, Inox and Alcubon (mirror); Courtesy of Salon 94 and the Artist

1) Sylvie Fleury

I am excited about the mini survey of her work we are showing in our booth at the fair. She is presenting a crashed car customized in a pink nail varnish color by the She Devils on Wheels. We are also showing one of my favorite works by her at the Salon94 booth, an 8 foot tall razor blade made of mirror. Sylvie loves to use references to art history to create her work, much like a DJ uses songs and tempos to create their own music. Expect her take on Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, Joseph Kosuth, John McCracken and the California “finish fetish” artists from the 60s.

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Suter Caputo

2) Kueng and Caputo

Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo are two artists who work as designers in Zurich. They have created a compliment machine, recording the compliments of their friends and collaborators with garage band. Their machine is triggered by a motion sensor, so when you walk by it will whisper quotes in your ear—like one from my favorite movies, The Aristocats, “your eyes are like sapphires sparkling so bright. They make the morning radiant and light.”

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"Columns," 2013 Found Image and Toothpaste Packaging
Courtesy of Christian Andersen and the Artist

3) Lina Viste Groenli

I just visited Lina Viste Groenli's show at Kunsthall Stavanger this past fall. Lina created a new body of work for Christian Andersen's booth in the Frame section at Frieze New York. The title of the series is “Household Patterns, Domestic Shapes” based on Lina’s obsession around the rectangular shapes (from bed linens to cereal boxes) that surround us.

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"Head of the Fish" (Desktop series), 2014, Bronze
Courtesy of Galerie Kamel Mennour and the Artist

4) Camille Henrot

Camille Henrot‘s video, "Grosse Fatigue" was hands down my favorite work at last summer’s Venice Biennial and I cannot wait to see her new piece at the Kamel Mennour booth. Her new series of bronze sculptures called Desktop Series refers to the desktop as the universal space of creation.

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"Happening", 2014, Acrylic on canvas
Courtesy of Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin and the Artist

5) Avery Singer

In the Frame section of the Frieze Fair you can also find young New York based artist Avery Singer's "Grisaille" paintings of artists, musicians and dancers in fictional Cubist-like tableaux.

I highly suggest stopping by Naama Tsabar’s Frieze Project. She creates a very simple stage, by removing the floor at one of the fair booths and invites underground New York bands to perform on the grass.

In the Frame section of Frieze, I look forward to seeing Ella Kruglanskaya's new paintings, which remind me of the Niki de Saint Phalle Nanas I grew up looking at. Check out the way she uses crosshatching on the skin of the women. It is derived from the tradition of rendering volume on human form, yet here it has the opposite effect, flattening and negating it.

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Tits in Space by Sarah Lucas; Courtesy of Sadie Coles Gallery and the Artist

8) Baumann + Muksian

This is actually not at Frieze Art Fair, it is a project at the Outsider Art Fair. Daniel Baumann and Muksian have paired the work of “Crystal John” (John Urho Kemp 1942-2010) a researcher in metaphysics, whose drawings and writing will be displayed with a wallpaper alongside works by Sarah Lucas, Dr. Lakra and Lewis Smith. I am most curious about this project.

Graphite on bristol vellum, mounted on masonite; Courtesy of David Lewis Gallery and the Artist

9) Dawn Kasper

A lot of shows are opening in Chelsea and on the Lower East Side this week too, including Dawn Kasper at David Lewis Gallery. Dawn comes to the exhibition to perform. One of the show's elements is this large 50 piece work inspired by a letter Sol Lewitt wrote to Eva Hesse where he encouraged her to stop engaging in self-defeating behaviors and... JUST DO IT.

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